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the Knicks. David Stern is a puppetmaster.....whatever city he feels needs a boost will eventually get one. He lined his pockets up with some of Paul Allen's Microsoft money to get the city of Portland re-energized with the NBA. If you don't believe that Paul Allen paid for Greg Oden then you just aren't paying attention. If you don't think he sent Durant to Seattle to keep the Sonics there then you are an idiot. He sent LeBronze to Cleveland, etc. This year he will give his good friend Donnie Walsh a new point guard for D'Antoni to work with.....DRose. He also will help Bob Johnson and Michael Jordan bring the fans back to Charlotte. They've had tough luck in the lottery missing out on Chris Paul and then picking Morrison over Gay/Roy so now it's time for Stern to wave his magic wand and hook them up.

This is not a prediction......it's a guarantee.

#1 Knicks
#2 Bobcats


The Bobcats may have a decent team for Larry Brown to work with:

Felton
JRich
Wallace
Beasley
Okafor

with Carroll, May, Morrison, Dudley, a vetern PG, and Nazr off the bench.

Yeah, the lottery is rigged. You're a modern day Einstein.

Lottery isn't rigged genius.

We'll see tomarrow, won't we?

It seems no matter what, if the Knicks get a good pick, they will always have to deal with rigged aligations.

If you don't think he sent Durant to Seattle to keep the Sonics there then you are an idiot.

Wow, wow. No. You sir are the idiot. I won't bother to explain myself to you because your brain couldn't handle it obviously.

CarolinaCash wrote:the Knicks. David Stern is a puppetmaster.....whatever city he feels needs a boost will eventually get one. He lined his pockets up with some of Paul Allen's Microsoft money to get the city of Portland re-energized with the NBA. If you don't believe that Paul Allen paid for Greg Oden then you just aren't paying attention. If you don't think he sent Durant to Seattle to keep the Sonics there then you are an idiot. He sent LeBronze to Cleveland, etc. This year he will give his good friend Donnie Walsh a new point guard for D'Antoni to work with.....DRose. He also will help Bob Johnson and Michael Jordan bring the fans back to Charlotte. They've had tough luck in the lottery missing out on Chris Paul and then picking Morrison over Gay/Roy so now it's time for Stern to wave his magic wand and hook them up.

This is not a prediction......it's a guarantee.

#1 Knicks
#2 Bobcats


The Bobcats may have a decent team for Larry Brown to work with:

Felton
JRich
Wallace
Beasley
Okafor

with Carroll, May, Morrison, Dudley, a vetern PG, and Nazr off the bench.

weve been in the lottery 7 out of the last 8 years--how many times have we won it? None

I'm not a Knicks fan but don't mind if they win the lottery... they're due. At least they're not tankers like the Heat.

mg wrote:I'm not a Knicks fan but don't mind if they win the lottery... they're due. At least they're not tankers like the Heat.

Tankers? You're comedy gold. Perhaps if the NBA allowed wheelchairs, then the Heat could have competed last year. Get a clue before you spew your nonsense.

CarolinaCash wrote:the Knicks. If you don't think he sent Durant to Seattle to keep the Sonics there then you are an idiot.

From what I've read on this board an in the news it seems like Stern is very adamant about getting the Sonics out of Seattle.

CarolinaCash wrote:the Knicks. David Stern is a puppetmaster.....whatever city he feels needs a boost will eventually get one. He lined his pockets up with some of Paul Allen's Microsoft money to get the city of Portland re-energized with the NBA. If you don't believe that Paul Allen paid for Greg Oden then you just aren't paying attention. If you don't think he sent Durant to Seattle to keep the Sonics there then you are an idiot. He sent LeBronze to Cleveland, etc. This year he will give his good friend Donnie Walsh a new point guard for D'Antoni to work with.....DRose. He also will help Bob Johnson and Michael Jordan bring the fans back to Charlotte. They've had tough luck in the lottery missing out on Chris Paul and then picking Morrison over Gay/Roy so now it's time for Stern to wave his magic wand and hook them up.

This is not a prediction......it's a guarantee.

#1 Knicks
#2 Bobcats


The Bobcats may have a decent team for Larry Brown to work with:

Felton
JRich
Wallace
Beasley
Okafor

with Carroll, May, Morrison, Dudley, a vetern PG, and Nazr off the bench.

This thread should be stickied, so we can make fun of you mercilessly when you are wrong.



Note: not saying the Knicks won't get a decent pick - they have an 18.5% chance at a top 2 pick, and a 29.2% chance at a top 3 pick, they could easily end up in the top 2 or 3. However, I do not think that the lottery is fixed, and the probability of the Knicks and the Bobcats going 1 and 2 is low enough that I feel confident saying that this exact combo will not be happening.

He is now after the financial package has been presented to him......last year though he wanted them to stay in Seattle.

Tomarrow when the order is completely different, I won't be surprised to see you making another list of reasons why THOSE teams that got the picks only got them because of Stern. With conspiracy theroies like this, the lack of any proof other then pathetic speculation is never gonna die.

What are you guaranteeing?

FlaStGrad wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Tankers? You're comedy gold. Perhaps if the NBA allowed wheelchairs, then the Heat could have competed last year. Get a clue before you spew your nonsense.

The Heat was tanking...in part because of the injuries. But if you don't think that they were tanking towards then end then you may eed to take heed of your own advice. They were most definitely tanking. The only thing that could have made it any more obvious that they were tanking would have been for Riley to just come out and admit what was obvious to everyone else.

Shawn Marion would have been playing if he were still on the Suns.....he sat bc Miami didn't want him to play. The Heat were tanking big time.

I hope you're right because if anyone could use a break (boost), it's the Indiana Pacers.

FlaStGrad wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Tankers? You're comedy gold. Perhaps if the NBA allowed wheelchairs, then the Heat could have competed last year. Get a clue before you spew your nonsense.

Riley was out scouting in the middle of the damn season instead of coaching his team. Yes, they were definitely tanking. Stern does not reward tanking.

The Heat weren't the 1st and definitely won't be the last.

Flash3 wrote:The Heat weren't the 1st and definitely won't be the last.

Definitely not the first (Boston did it last year) and definitely won't be the last. And honestly there's nothing necessarily wrong with that. I wouldn't have minded if the Knicks had actually done that but they had to go and win 3 key games down the stretch and screw things up a bit.

The system is set up that way to do it, in a way.

But, if the Heat win tomorrow, it will have all been worth it.

If anything, last year is proof the lottery is not rigged.

Why send the top 2 players to a (formerly) dying team in a small market and (maybe still) dying team about to undergo a city/name change?

Brand names are important. Sticking Durant on a team that is about to not exist anymore and putting him on one that has never existed is the last thing the NBA would want.